Hope for Charities Auction Update Buyer Beware

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by sb1

Paypal opened a case against them for non delivery of goods, 12 days later they never responded. Not to Paypal, not to my emails, not to my phone messages. I was refunded my money by Paypal.

I think you're very lucky this was the outcome. I was not aware we had any recourse when sending money via paypal f/f.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

I think you're very lucky this was the outcome. I was not aware we had any recourse when sending money via paypal f/f.

I want to make sure folks know I brought up a 2 yrs old thread on purpose. There seem to be some new happenings folks should be aware of. That is why I revived an old thread. Be careful out there.....

[bobfreedman]

If you get an email from a person named Ken Thimmel, my advice to you would be to delete it and mark it as SPAM and never buy anything from him

[Exhibitman]

And don't pay for goods with f/f PayPal. How many times do we have to be told that f/f doesn't provide buyer protection before it sinks in? If the seller is adamant, offer to add 3% to the purchase so you can use regular PayPal to pay and avail yourself of its policies if the item doesn't arrive. I do that all the time. Yeah, it costs me a few bucks, but I never have to worry about some DB's partner disappearing [allegedly] with the money and the items.

[sb1]

Just to be clear. I did not use friends/family, there is/was(not sure if they still have it as an option) a separate tab entitled "money owed" which is exactly what it was, money owed for an invoice.

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by sb1

Just to be clear. I did not use friends/family, there is/was(not sure if they still have it as an option) a separate tab entitled "money owed" which is exactly what it was, money owed for an invoice.

I have never noticed that tab. What I have noticed is that when you are sending a payment one of the choices is 'goods and services'. Unless you are truly sending to friends and family then this should be the tab you choose. I agree with Adam on this. I will add a few dollars to cover the vig paypal takes. I just did outside of ebay it worked well as the seller suggested that way for our mutual protection. I added the extra as he was concerned about the high fee.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by sb1

Just to be clear. I did not use friends/family, there is/was(not sure if they still have it as an option) a separate tab entitled "money owed" which is exactly what it was, money owed for an invoice.

Actually, I was responding to post #17; did not mean to imply you'd used f/f to pay.

[sb1]

Adam.

No problem.

Normally the only time I use it is for ebay which is automated checkout. I went to PP, and see that they have changed their options as to how to pay. I now see that when you go into their system and send money manually, that there are now only two options, instead of the 4 or 5 they used to have. F/F or Goods/Services.

[CMFSports]

Originally Posted by bobfreedman

If you get an email from a person named Ken Thimmel, my advice to you would be to delete it and mark it as SPAM and never buy anything from him

Amen to that.